WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Gymnechinus gravieri Koehler, 1905) KOEHLER, R. 1905. Echinides Asteries et Ophiures recueillis par M. Gravier dans la mer Rouge (Golfe de Tadjourah). Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris, 11: 184-186, available online at http://www.vliz.be/en/imis?refid=217178 page(s): 184 [details]
basis of record
Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Mortensen, T. (1943). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 2. Camarodonta. I. Orthopsidæ, Glyphocyphidæ, Temnopleuridæ and Toxopneustidæ. vii+553 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen. page(s): 415-416 [details]
From other sources
Distribution Also distributed in SE Arabia and north Australia, but Mortensen (1943) and H.L. Clark (1946) comment that the identification of australian specimens is doubtful (Clark & Rowe, 1971).
Ecology: benthic, (inshore). General distribution: temperate, tropical, discontinuous (western Indian Ocean) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Holotype Holotype (probable) whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Gulf of Tadjurah, Gulf of Aden (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
From editor or global species database
| |